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Joseph Smith’s “The Greatest Event . . . since the Resurrection of the Son of God” message from the deans’ office Strengthening Religious Education e are living in a day that is both wonderful and perilous. In the midst of Wincreasing political polarization, religious disaffiliation, and debates over issues such as gender identity and immigration, many are facing what could be considered an epistemological crisis. There is an anxiety and uncertainty among some about how we can confidently know what is true. At the same time, we are living in what the Apostle Paul prophesied as being “the dispensation of the fulness of times” (Ephesians 1:10). As a vital part of the of “the fulness of his gospel” ( 133:57), the Savior has provided living prophets to provide continuing authoritative revelation to assist us in discerning truth from error. In June 2019 the faculty and staff of Religious Education receiveddirection ­ from our prophet-leaders titled “Guidelines for Strengthening Religious Education in Institutions of Higher Learning.” This two-page document includes the following direction concerning the role of religious education generally:

“The purpose of religious education is to teach the restored gospel of Jesus Christ from the scrip- tures and modern prophets in a way that helps each student: • Develop faith in and a testimony of Heavenly Father and His ‘great plan,’ the Savior, Jesus Christ, and His infinite atoning sacrifice, and the restored gospel of Jesus Christ, including The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; ; and the other modern prophets, seers, and revelators. • Become lifelong disciples of Jesus Christ, who make and keep covenants, who love God and others, and who are able, willing, and committed to gather Israel on both sides of the veil. • Strengthen their ability to find answers, resolve doubts, respond with faith, and give reason for the hope within them in whatever challenges they may face.” (Board of Trustees, 12 June 2019)

At the heart of the truth of what we teach isn’t an abstract set of principles, but a living God, a Heavenly Father who loves us and who has sent his Son. The most important assignment we have is to assist those we teach to come to a knowledge of the Truth—Jesus Christ. How blessed we are to be led and loved by living prophets to guide us through these perilous times. The faculty and staff of BYU Religious Education and the BYU Religious Education Review are committed to following their prophetic direction. Please know how grateful we are to those who support us in this great cause.

Sincerely, Dean, Religious Education

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BYU Religious Education Review A Publication of the rsc.byu.edu/review

6 14 20 feature historian’s corner outreach Joseph Smith’s Twenty Years of the BYU Interfaith Club First Vision Religious Educator By Andrew C. Reed By Scott C. Esplin By Brad Wilcox and Timothy G. Morrison

Editor’s Note ...... 2 Student Section ...... 17 A New RSC Website: Harnessing Technology to Visualizing Learning: Religious Education’s Exhibit Hasten the Work of Salvation Showcasing Student Artwork By Scott C. Esplin By Gaye Strathearn

Calendar of Events...... 3 Study Resources...... 24 Free Resources to Enhance Your Study of Highlights: Faculty and Staff ...... 4 Come, Follow Me Research Update...... 12 By R. Devan Jensen 1820: Dawning of the Restoration New Publications...... 26 By Emily Cook Notes: Faculty and Staff ...... 28

On the cover: First Visions, by Anthony R. Sweat

RELIGIOUS Publications Director Executive Editor RSC Student Editors DESIGN & STUDIES CENTER Scott C. Esplin R. Devan Jensen Emily Cook PRODUCTION Julie Newman Hales Creative, LLC Founded in 1975 by Publications REVIEW MAGAZINE Sarah Whitney Johnson Jeffrey R. Holland Coordinator Creative Director STAFF Meghan Wilson Joany O. Pinegar Kelly Nield Director Editor Daniel K Judd Photographers Designers Scott C. Esplin Brent R. Nordgren Kelly Nield Associate Director Managing Editor Richard B. Crookston Laci Gibbs J. B. Haws Brent R. Nordgren

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WINTER 2020 1 editor’s note

a new rsc website harnessing technology to hasten the work of salvation

SCOTT C. ESPLIN ([email protected]) IS PUBLICATIONS DIRECTOR OF THE BYU RELIGIOUS STUDIES CENTER.

n any given day, one of the that these powerful communication available, providing more than 600 Omost popular websites at innovations and inventions are occur- articles to enhance study and teach- University is accessed ring in the dispensation of the fulness ing of the gospel. On the site, users thousands of times. Teachers and of times.”2 can subscribe to the journal as well students, individuals and families find At the Religious Studies Center, as sign up to receive free print copies their way to rsc.byu.edu, seeking to we are excited to contribute to of our Review magazine or a monthly enhance their study of the scriptures this proliferation of technological electronic newsletter. and history of the Church. In 2019 resources that can accelerate the New features include popular alone, the site was accessed nearly a work of salvation by announcing our media resources, including both the million times by users from over 200 newly designed website. For more original and recently revised round- countries. The most common day than a year, Religious Education table scripture discussions and a new each week to access the site is Sunday, technology specialists Marshall podcast series titled “Y Religion.” with nearly 10,000 people using its Morrise and Richard Crookston, RSC The podcast features interviews most popular features.1 These include employees Brent Nordgren and Emily with faculty discussing their latest robust resources to augment Come, Strong, and a small army of students research. Details about upcoming Follow Me study such as our archive have been reshaping the way we conferences, together with videos of books, chapters, and articles about deliver content. In early 2020, the from past events, are also available. teachings and doctrine of the Church. new site was launched, maintaining We are pleased to extend the “We are blessed to live, learn, the same URL (rsc.byu.edu) but reach of Religious Education and and serve in this most remarkable updating and augmenting its utility. through dispensation,” Elder David A. Bednar Prominent features of the this new website. Speaking of that declared, speaking of the prolifera- website include information about reach, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, tion of resources at our fingertips. the more than 220 books published founder of the Religious Studies “An important aspect of the fulness by the RSC its forty-five-year history. Center, commented, “I think we are that is available to us in this special The full content of nearly 200 of just beginning; I think we are just season is a miraculous progression of these books are available to read for barely sprouting out of the ground on innovations and inventions that have free on the website, together with this thing. I would hope we would do enabled and accelerated the work of links to purchase the other titles. a lot more, become a lot better known salvation. . . . The Lord is hastening Additionally, two decades of our and get more than your current His work, and it is no coincidence journal, the Religious Educator, are 30,000 hits. I hope it is 300,000 five

2 BYU RELIGIOUS EDUCATION REVIEW months from now, because there is an immense need for people to have their understanding of the gospel increased. Calendar of Events Open to the campus community and the general public I think we are all going to need our faith fortified, and one way we fortify it is by solid study. So I think for BYU Church History Symposium people to have opportunities, avenues, Thursday and Friday, 12–13 March 2020 ways, channels, places to study The 2020 BYU Church History Symposium will convene at Brigham Young University on 12 March with keynote speakers including Sheri Dew and and fortify their faith, to learn the Richard Lyman Bushman. The conference will reconvene at the Assembly wonders and beauties and marvels of Hall in Salt Lake City on 13 March and will feature President Dallin H. Oaks, the Restoration—I think you have just First Counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of barely started on that, and so I would Latter-day Saints. The theme of the symposium is “Visions and Visionaries: hope the RSC becomes much more Joseph Smith in Comparative Contexts.” For more information, visit http://rsc.byu.edu/churchhistorysymposium/2020. widely known.”3 We invite you to share with us in this charge. BYU Easter Conference Friday, 10 April 2020 Gratefully, The BYU Easter Conference will be held in the audi- torium beginning at 7:00 p.m. Each speaker will talk about various aspects of the Savior, his life, his mission, the Atonement, and his influence in our lives today. Plan to bring a friend or loved one and come early. For more information, visit http://rsc.byu.edu/easterconference. Scott C. Esplin Sidney B. Sperry Symposium Publications Director Friday and Saturday, 23–24 October 2020 Religious Studies Center The 49th Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium will be held in the Joseph Smith Building (JSB) Auditorium and nearby classrooms on BYU campus. Notes The theme is “How and What You Worship.” Presentations will cover 1. Statistics from Google analytics for Christology, the study of the nature and mission of Christ. In light of Joseph rsc.byu.edu. Smith’s revelations, this study necessarily involves attention to the spiritual 2. David A. Bednar, “To Sweep the Earth as and intellectual quest to “know” the Savior (John 17:3). For more informa- with a Flood,” Campus Education Week at tion, visit https://rsc.byu.edu/sperrysymposium. Brigham Young University, 19 August 2014, https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org­ /prophets-and-apostles/unto-all-the-world These events are free of charge, and registration is not /to-sweep-the-earth-as-with-a-flood?lang required. Some event details are subject to change. For more =eng. details, please visit us online at rsc.byu.edu/conferences or 3. Quoted in Thomas A. Wayment, “The RSC contact Devan Jensen at 801-422-9304. Turns Forty: A Conversation with Elder Jeffrey R. Holland,” Religious Educator 16, no. 2 (2015): 4–5.

WINTER 2020 3 highlights

Faculty Highlight: Brad Wilcox

BRAD WILCOX ([email protected]) IS AN ASSOCIATE TEACHING PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT SCRIPTURE AT BYU.

rad Wilcox enjoys teaching and New Testament Bclasses. He is the author of the books The Continuous Atonement and the BYU devotional “His Grace Is Sufficient.” His research interests include literacy and the study of names in the Book of Mormon. As a young man, Brad served his mission in Chile and felt privileged to return to that country to serve as a mission president from 2003 to 2006. He has also served on the Sunday School general board from 2009 to 2014, where he helped in the creation of the Come, Follow Me curriculum for youth. Brad and his wife, Debi, have four children and eight grandchildren.

Faculty Hightlight: Craig Manscill

CRAIG K. MANSCILL ([email protected]) IS AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF CHURCH HISTORY AND DOCTRINE AT BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY.

raig Manscill was raised in a small farming community of Farr CWest, Utah. He has worked as a religious educator for forty-one-years. With Seminaries and Institutes, he served as a seminary instructor in Ogden, Utah, an English teacher in Fiji, a coordinator and institute director in New York, and curriculum writer and manager of institute curriculum at Church headquarters. Dr. Manscill also taught at the BYU Jerusalem of Near Eastern Studies in 2009–10. His current research focuses on the Hyrum Smith Papers Project, Pacific Church history, and nineteenth-century Church history. Dr. Manscill has been awarded research fellowships at Huntington Library and Oxford University. He published the recent Deseret Book bestseller Dreams as Revelations. The past seven years he has served as teacher, codirector, and director of the Church History Travel Study program for BYU undergraduate students. He was recently honored with 2019 West Belnap Citizenship Award for outstanding citizenship. He and Jana have eight children and twenty-one grandchildren. He currently serves with his wife in a branch presidency at the Provo Missionary Training Center.

4 BYU RELIGIOUS EDUCATION REVIEW Staff Highlight: Emily Strong

EMILY STRONG ([email protected]) IS A GRAPHIC DESIGNER AND TYPESETTER AT THE BYU RELIGIOUS STUDIES CENTER.

mily Strong was born and raised in the Tri-Cities, Washington, Ebefore moving to Provo, where she currently lives. She is a graphic designer and typesetter at the Religious Studies Center and also works with the design aspect of the RSC website. A lifelong passion for reading and writing led her to receive a BA in English with a minor in editing from BYU. While working as an editor, Emily discovered an additional talent in graphic design that led her to her current career as a book designer. In addition to designing books, she enjoys creating advertisements, greeting cards, and wedding announce- ments using programs such as Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator. Her interests also include hiking and anything related to the outdoors, reading, sketching and painting, acquiring new fonts, being around and learning about animals, and spending time with her large family.

Faculty Highlight: Kent Brooks

KENT BROOKS ([email protected]) IS AN ASSOCIATE TEACHING PROFESSOR OF CHURCH HISTORY AND DOCTRINE AT BYU.

ent Brooks was born in Provo, Utah, and raised in Utah, Texas, Kand California. He served a mission in the Argentina Rosario Mission. He married his wife in 1978, and they have five children and thirteen grand- children. He received a bachelor’s degree in psychology, a master’s degree in counseling, and a PhD in family studies. Kent has practiced for over thirty-five years as a marriage and family counselor. He has served in the Church as a bishop, a member of the high council, a counselor in a mission presidency, a president, a Missionary Training Center branch president, and a Gospel Doctrine teacher.

WINTER 2020 5 Joseph Smith’s First Vision by “The Greatest Event . . . Scott C. since the Resurrection Esplin of the Son of God”

SCOTT C. ESPLIN ([email protected]) IS THE PUBLICATIONS DIRECTOR OF THE BYU RELIGIOUS STUDIES CENTER.

resident Russell M. Nelson concluded the October Harper, the book First Vision “aims the light of memory 2019 general conference with these words: “In the studies, amassed over the past century, at Joseph Smith’s P springtime of the year 2020, it will be exactly 200 years narratives, as well as the secondary accounts of his vision since Joseph Smith experienced the theophany that we and the rich historical record surrounding their composi- know as the First Vision. God the Father and His Beloved tions. In a way,” Harper concludes, “this book is a travel Son, Jesus Christ, appeared to Joseph, a 14-year-old narrative—the travel of memory through time—telling the youth. That event marked the onset of the Restoration odyssey of Smith’s vision from its obscure origins to its of the gospel of Jesus Christ in its fulness, precisely as current situation as the genesis of The Church of Jesus foretold in the Holy .” Electrifying the conference Christ of Latter-day Saints.”2 audience, he continued, “The year 2020 will be designated as a bicentennial year. General conference next April will be different from any previous conference.” He charged “In the springtime of the year 2020, it Church members, “In the next six months, I hope that every member and every family will prepare for a unique will be exactly 200 years since Joseph conference that will commemorate the very foundations of Smith experienced the theophany that the restored gospel.”1 we know as the First Vision.” President Nelson suggested several ways members might commemorate the Restoration, including deepening their study of the First Vision and the Book of Mormon. While the book does explore the Prophet’s four Religious Education at BYU has been actively working primary accounts of his vision, the bulk of Harper’s work to meet the challenge, preparing materials to enrich a examines how it has become part of Latter-day Saint churchwide celebration of these foundational events. collective and even contested memory. “The goal,” Harper Today’s professors build upon the legacies of earlier writes, “is to explain how [Joseph Smith] remembered religious educators such as Milton V. Backman, Larry C. his first vision, how others have remembered it, and what Porter, Richard L. Anderson, and others who conducted difference those memories have made over time.”3 David F. pathbreaking research on the First Vision. The products Holland, a history professor at the Harvard Divinity of this latest labor take many forms, including scholarly School, lauds praise on the product: “As the biography of a monographs, conferences, podcasts, and art, which we are theophany, this book beautifully narrates the long, compli- pleased to celebrate in this issue. cated life of Joseph Smith’s First Vision in the history, theology, and culture of the Latter-day Saints. . . . Steven Scholarly Examination Harper has accomplished a remarkable thing.”4 Over the last several months, religious educators at BYU A second book is Kerry M. Muhlestein’s “I Saw the have prepared three new books on Joseph Smith’s First Lord”: Joseph’s First Vision Combined from Nine Accounts, Vision. In 2019, Dr. Steven C. Harper produced a seminal published by Deseret Book. “Joseph Smith’s First Vision work, First Vision: Memory and Mormon Origins, published is the best documented vision of God in the history of the by Oxford University Press. First Vision “charts substantial world,” Dr. Muhlestein asserts. “Yet, because the details new historiographical territory,” being the product of his of the vision are spread over nine different accounts, . . . work as a volume editor with The Joseph Smith Papers, a many people do not know all they could about this remark- lead history editor of Saints: The Story of The Church of able and world-changing experience.”5 “I Saw the Lord” Jesus Christ in the Latter Days, and a researcher on Joseph harmonizes the four primary accounts of Joseph Smith’s Smith for more than a decade at BYU. In the words of Dr. vision with five secondary versions, allowing readers to

8 BYU RELIGIOUS EDUCATION REVIEW The products of this latest labor take many forms, including scholarly monographs, conferences, podcasts, and art, which we are pleased to celebrate in this issue.

First Vision and “I Saw the Lord.”

“come to understand the vision more fully than is possible year of our Lord 1820,’ as every almanac spoke of it,” as without wading through each account separately and it “broke upon a weary world that was cautiously seeking laboriously, trying to harmonize them.” Dr. Muhlestein new hopes, new dreams, and bold new visions—including concludes, “This retelling of the vision presents it in its Joseph Smith’s.”8 1820: Dawning of the Restoration is the fullness, allowing the reader to take in all the glorious and subject of the “Research Update” section of this issue of edifying details of the event that are available from the the BYU Religious Education Review. first- and secondhand sources.”6 Organized around the themes of seeking, asking, Bicentennial Conferences finding, and learning, “I Saw the Lord” presents a narrative Religious Education is also pleased to partner with the approach to the First Vision for a general reader, with rich Church History Department to host a special Church appendices that examine each account in greater detail. History Symposium commemorating the First Vision and “This is as seminal an event as any that has ever happened, the Restoration. “Visions and Visionaries: Joseph Smith except for the birth, ministry, death, and Resurrection in Comparative Contexts” will be held 12–13 March 2020. of Jesus Christ,” Muhlestein maintains. “It is my hope Thursday sessions (12 March) will convene at Brigham that this book will help raise our appreciation for the Young University and include keynote addresses by First Vision, will provide opportunity for the Spirit to Sheri Dew, CEO of and former strengthen our testimonies of that vision, and will increase counselor in the Relief Society General Presidency, and our ability to share and bear testimony of it ourselves.”7 Richard Lyman Bushman, professor and biographer of Slated for release this spring is 1820: Dawning of the Joseph Smith. Friday sessions (13 March) will be held at Restoration, by Richard E. Bennett. The book, copub- the Conference Center Theater in Salt Lake City and will lished by the BYU Religious Studies Center and Deseret feature a keynote address by President Dallin H. Oaks. Book, contextualizes Joseph Smith’s vision and the In January, Religious Education also partnered with restoration it initiated within a global setting. Seeking to the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical capture “the qualities and essential meanings of the age,” Gardens in San Marino, California, to study and celebrate Bennett’s work explores what he calls the “four dominant the two hundredth anniversary of the First Vision. The constellations in the skies of early nineteenth-century Huntington Library, one of the premier research institu- history,” namely revolution and reform, Romanticism, tions in the world as well as a significant repository for emancipation and independence, and religious revivalism. Latter-day Saint historical documents, hosted a two-day From Napoléon to Beethoven to Bolívar, Dawning of the conference titled “The First Vision of Joseph Smith Jr: Restoration portrays a biographical examination of “‘the 200 Years On.” Convened by Church history and doctrine

WINTER 2020 9 professor Richard E. Bennett, presenters from the faculty Jones of BYU’s History Department, Matthew C. Godfrey— of Religious Education joined with scholars from around managing historian of the Joseph Smith Papers Project the country to explore the meaning of the First Vision and adjunct professor of Religious Education—and Brent for Latter-day Saints and the larger religious community. Rogers, Robin Jensen, Jenny Lund, and Mark Staker—also The conference also examined the historicity, theological of the Church History Department. importance, and significance within American religious New insights coming from the podcast include a history of the First Vision. Papers from the conference will deeper discussion of the pressing questions of Joseph likely be published in a forthcoming special issue of the Smith’s soul that led to his seeking God, a discussion BYU Studies Quarterly. of the sensory experience in the grove itself, and ways Church members have come to visualize the experience. Intended for a general Church audience, each episode is New insights coming from the podcast approximately twenty minutes long and can be accessed through the Latter-day Saints Channel, Apple Podcasts, include a deeper discussion of the Google Play, and Spotify. McBride hopes “that through pressing questions of Joseph Smith’s this podcast church members will hear a familiar story in soul that led to his seeking God, a a new way. [McBride thinks] they will better understand Joseph Smith, his First Vision, and the way that event discussion of the sensory experience influences their own faith and Christian discipleship.” in the grove itself, and ways Church Visual Exploration members have come to visualize the Finally, Professor Anthony R. Sweat, a talented teacher experience. and artist, combines both disciplines in his recent painting The First Visions, featured on the cover of this issue of the BYU Religious Education Review. Dr. Sweat couples his The First Vision Goes Digital experience as a practicing artist and his familiarity with In addition to traditional conference and print formats, teaching the First Vision to thousands of students in order twenty-first century students of the First Vision can learn to harmonize the accounts in a way that both teaches and more about this foundational event in Latter-day Saint edifies. Professor Sweat’s original painting, as well as a history through modern media. wealth of information about the First Vision, is featured in In January, the Church History Department released an exhibit titled “‘A Pillar of Light’: Celebrating 200 Years a six-episode podcast miniseries titled The First Vision: of the First Vision,” curated by the L. Tom Perry Special A Joseph Smith Papers Podcast. Produced in an engaging, Collections of the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young long-form journalistic style, the series aims to tell the story University. of the First Vision for modern audiences seeking material The First Visions “attempts to bring together into in mediums other than print. Church History Department one image some aspects not typically depicted in other historian and project lead Spencer W. McBride explains, First Vision imagery,” Sweat asserts. Among other things, “The goal of the podcast is to re-create for listeners the Sweat’s work captures nuanced details from the nine world Joseph Smith knew in 1820, to provide a deeper First Vision accounts. Dr. Sweat further explains, “In the context for the First Vision. We do this by drawing on the 1835 account Joseph makes an important statement not expertise of scholars who have spent years immersed in often visually depicted. At the close of it he says, ‘and I historical sources.” These scholars include Rachel Cope saw many angels in this vision.’ Depicted above the Father and Steven C. Harper of Religious Education, Christopher and the Son are a gathering of many types of heavenly

10 BYU RELIGIOUS EDUCATION REVIEW Additionally, the first hints of spring are evident in the leaves, just beginning to burst forth. “Although we don’t know the month and day of the First Vision, the browns and greens suggest a grove getting ready to burst out of winter’s dark slumber, a fitting metaphor for the fruits of the First Vision itself.”9

Conclusion President Joseph F. Smith remarked in 1917, “The great- est event that has ever occurred in the world, since the resurrection of the Son of God from the tomb and his ascension on high, was the coming of the Father and of the Son to that boy Joseph Smith.”10 We join with the Church in celebrating this season. However, all of this focus on the foundational events of the Restoration should do more than simply increase our knowledge. President M. Russell Ballard declared at a BYU devotional, “If anyone knows, I mean really knows, that Heavenly Father and his Beloved Son, Jesus Christ, appeared to and spoke to Joseph Smith as he said they did, the natural outcome of that knowledge should kindle a strong desire to serve God and his Holy Son all the days of his or her life.”11 We hope we will all be the better for studying and commemorating the First Vision.

Notes 1. Russell M. Nelson, “Closing Remarks,” Ensign, November 2019, 122. 2. Steven C. Harper, First Vision: Memory and Mormon Origins (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), 2. 3. Harper, First Vision, 4. 4. David F. Holland, cited in Harper, First Vision, dust jacket. 5. Kerry M. Muhlestein, “I Saw the Lord”: Joseph’s First Vision Combined from Nine Accounts (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2020), book cover. 6. Kerry M. Muhlestein, personal communication with author. 7. Kerry M. Muhlestein, personal communication with author. The Desires of My Heart, by Walter Rane © Intellectual Reserve, Inc. 8. Richard E. Bennett, 1820: Dawning of the Restoration (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: angels—female and male—divinely assembled to witness Deseret Book, 2020), xi–xii. and testify. The vision was probably more expansive in 9. Anthony R. Sweat, cited in “A Pillar of Light: Celebrating 200 Years of scope than most assume,” Sweat concludes. the First Vision,” exhibit at the L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT. “Included in the scene is something not often 10. Joseph F. Smith, Gospel Doctrine: Selections from the Sermons and directly shown,” Professor Sweat adds. In the corner of Writings of Joseph F. Smith (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1919), 627. the painting is the adversary and his attendant darkness 11. M. Russell Ballard, “Anchor to the Soul,” Brigham Young University being “pushed away from Joseph by the pillar of flame.” Devotional, 6 September 1992.

WINTER 2020 11 Research Update

Dawning of the� by EmilyRestoration Cook 1820EMILY COOK ([email protected]) WAS A STUDENT EDITOR AT THE RELIGIOUS STUDIES CENTER WHEN THIS ARTICLE WAS WRITTEN.

he year 2020 is one of great religious significance. It and reform, Romanticism, emancipation, and religious Tis the two hundredth anniversary of Joseph Smith’s revivalism. In order to illustrate the significance of these First Vision. This is sure to be a year of gratitude as cornerstones, Bennett narrows in on remarkable figures in members around the world celebrate and reflect on the each of these movements during this era. blessings of the Restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ. In regard to revolution and reform, Bennett spotlights As part of this celebration and reflection, Richard Bennett prominent political figures such as the French emperor has compiled years of research into his soon-to-be- Napoléon and the British king and queen George IV and published book 1820: Dawning of the Restoration. Caroline. Bennett describes how Napoleon’s conquests The book looks at what he calls the “four corner- spread progressive ideals across the globe and how the stones”1 of the early nineteenth century: revolution

12 BYU RELIGIOUS EDUCATION REVIEW Industrial Revolution began to change the world right under the noses of the quarrelling British monarchs. Additionally, figures such as the master musician Beethoven and the tormented artist Géricault are recognized for their work in Romanticism. Both strove to capture human emotion through music and painting while they simultaneously made pointed political statements. The early 1800s was also an age of emancipation. The Venezuelan revolutionary Simón Bolívar fought for South American independence from European powers. Bennett describes how it was through Bolívar’s persistence that South America was set on the path of freedom from the tyranny of Spain and Portugal. Bennett shows the important role religious revivalism played during this age through describing the lives of people such as William Wilberforce and Reverend John Williams. William Wilberforce was a convert of Methodist revivals in Great Britain, and his religious convictions eventually inspired him to work to abolish the slave trade. Rev. Williams was a member of the London Missionary Society that preached Christianity throughout the South Pacific, Asia, and Africa. Readers of 1820 will gain greater insight into the excit- Bennett acknowledges that taking on the task of ing and dynamic era of 1820. In the book, Bennett shows writing 1820 came with daunting challenges, including that “while the answer to [Joseph Smith’s] prayer led to interpretation, historical context, and scope. However, the sunrise of a new world religion, his quest must also be he tackles these challenges by weaving together the seen as part of a time that was changing old ways, manner- biographies of these extraordinary people to give readers a isms, and streams of thought in a wide range of human glimpse into the “spirit of the age.”2 endeavor. It was a time that fostered new revolutions in Bennett’s objective in writing 1820 was not to prove politics, economics, the arts, science, and religion.”4 Such that the only purpose of these events and an awareness of the Restoration’s place in history can only people was to prepare the world for the Restoration: “A encourage a deeper sense of appreciation among Church worldwide history cannot be artificially bent to fit a members for the restoration of Christ’s church on the narrow, preconceived, faith-promoting paradigm of earth and the blessings of salvation for the human family interpretation and self-fulfilling prophecy, that everyone that have come from it. and everything were somehow all part of a divine Latter- day Saint hymnbook.” He states, “Some of what was Notes happening elsewhere did indeed impact the unfolding of 1. Richard E. Bennett, 1820: Dawning of the Restoration (Provo, UT: the Restoration, and where that was the case, I have briefly Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2020), xi. made comments thereon. However, this was not always 2. Bennett, 1820, xiii. so. The astute reader will have to make his or her own 3. Bennett, 1820, viii. connections and conclusions.”3 4. Bennett, 1820, xiv.

WINTER 2020 13 Historian’s corner

Twenty Years of the Religious Educator

Brad Wilcox and Timothy G. Morrison

BRAD WILCOX ([email protected]) IS AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT SCRIPTURE AT BYU. TIMOTHY G. MORRISON ([email protected]) IS AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF TEACHER EDUCATION AT BYU.

here were you twenty years and students to engage in scholarship. in 1999, with the first issue published Wago? That was before the terror- On 3 May 1972, Religious Education in spring 2000. ist attacks of 2001 and the heightened discontinued its doctoral degree In 2000 only one issue was airport security that followed. Do you programs. This gave fewer opportuni- produced. It was edited within remember when the vote between ties for faculty to team with students Religious Education, primarily by George W. Bush and Al Gore dangled in scholarly research. As a faculty Andrew C. Skinner, the editorial on a few hanging chads in Florida? member at the time, Robert L. Millet manager and chair of the Department President Gordon B. Hinckley was noticed the resulting decline in of Ancient Scripture at the time, the President of The Church of Jesus faculty scholarly productivity. When and Lori A. Soza, an administrative Christ of Latter-day Saints in 2000 he became dean in 1991, he began assistant, with help from Connie R. and dedicated the Conference Center meeting with Stanley A. Peterson, Lankford, Laura Card, and Cory in Salt Lake City. A lot happened back who was the associate commissioner/ Crawford. The first issue received in the year 2000, but perhaps some- administrator of Religious Education a positive response, and Millet thing that may have escaped your and Church Schools. Dean Millet determined to continue publication notice was the beginning of a journal proposed launching a journal to of the journal, with two issues in the at BYU called the Religious Educator. motivate increased scholarship, following year and three issues each From that beginning, the journal has and Brother Peterson agreed. They year thereafter. grown to be a significant resource for envisioned that the journal could Associate dean Paul Y. Hoskisson gospel scholarship throughout the inform full- and part-time seminary invited Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, world. The Religious Educator is now and institute teachers, as well as professor of Church history and celebrating its twentieth anniversary. others who teach in the Church. This doctrine, to take on production of the This article tells the story of how the journal could also provide an addi- journal as part of his full-time respon- journal came to be. tional outlet for faculty publications, sibilities and bring the journal under as national journals are not always the supervision of the RSC. Hoskisson Creating the Journal receptive to articles about Latter- asked Holzapfel to increase the rigor In the past, BYU Religious Education day Saint doctrine and practices. of the journal and clarify its purpose sponsored a number of graduate Preparations for the first volume of within the Latter-day Saint commu- programs, which allowed professors the Religious Educator officially began nity. Previously, professors had

14 BYU RELIGIOUS EDUCATION REVIEW A selection of covers over the past twenty years. Photo by Brent R. Nordgren. tailored their writing for BYU Studies avoided topics that might be consid- Jensen, and Hales Creative worked or the Ensign, an official publication ered fringe or extreme. Mary Jo Tansy together for seven years to publish of the Church. BYU Studies had a of the BYU Creative Works office the journal, with Stoddard and general academic focus, while the handled distribution of the journal. Jensen handling the editing and Hales Ensign was aimed at general Church Charlotte Pollard, an administrative Creative designing and typesetting. In membership. Holzapfel envisioned assistant in the RSC, and later Joany 2004, Holzapfel became the publica- the Religious Educator as finding a Pinegar, the publications coordinator tions director of the RSC, which home somewhere between these two for the RSC, helped coordinate the included continuing as editor of the publications, with a particular focus peer-review process. Religious Educator. In 2008, Brent on gospel teaching. He also wanted to align the journal with the stated aims of a BYU education: to be spiritually Holzapfel also wanted to align the journal with the strengthening, intellectually enlarg- stated aims of a BYU education: to be spiritually ing, character building, and leading strengthening, intellectually enlarging, character to lifelong learning and service. Holzapfel approached Stephen Hales, building, and leading to lifelong learning and service. a professional designer and founder of Provo-based Hales Creative, and Ted D. Stoddard, a business writing In 2001, R. Devan Jensen, who R. Nordgren joined the team as a professor at BYU. had worked as an editor for the production supervisor, overseeing He set up a review board tasked Ensign at the time, was hired by the design and securing images, captions, blind peer review and with ensuring RSC to oversee book editing and edit and permissions. Robert L. Millet, that the journal maintained an appeal the redesigned Religious Educator. no longer serving as dean, replaced to mainstream Church members and This team of Holzapfel, Stoddard, Holzapfel from 2010 to 2012 with

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Brad Wilcox showing the Religious Educator to students. Photo by Brent R. Nordgren.

the assistance of Richard E. Bennett, associate dean of Religious Education. Initially, the three areas of focus for the journal were Dana M. Pike, professor of ancient scripture, was the next editor of the outlined as gospel teaching, doctrinal understanding, journal until the end of 2013. The and Church history. following year, Thomas A. Wayment, professor in the Department of Ancient Scripture at the time, became General Authorities and officers of Second, we have a sacred responsibil- publications director of the RSC and the Church. Often, these have been ity to do all we can to help many more editor in chief. He was followed in adapted from addresses given at of the rising generation and many of 2018 by Scott C. Esplin, professor in various conferences or reprints of the older generation to obtain that the Department of Church History devotional addresses. kind of education.”1 The Religious and Doctrine. At the university conference in Educator has proven to be a valuable Provo in 2016, Elder Kim B. Clark, tool in fulfilling these two objectives Making a Difference Commissioner of Church Education and building the kingdom of God. Initially, the three areas of focus for and Seventy at the journal were outlined as gospel the time, highlighted two objectives Notes teaching, doctrinal understanding, of the Church Educational System. 1. Kim B. Clark, “The Lord’s Pattern” (Brigham and Church history. One additional He said, “First, we need to educate Young University conference address, 22 August 2016), https://speeches.byu.edu focus that appeared quickly in the more deeply and more powerfully /talks/kim-b-clark_the-lords-pattern/. Religious Educator was to include than we have ever done before—more articles by and interviews with than anyone has ever done before. . . .

16 BYU RELIGIOUS EDUCATION REVIEW student section Visualizing Learning: Religious Education’s Exhibit Showcasing Student Artwork

Gaye Strathearn

GAYE STRATHEARN ([email protected]) IS AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT SCRIPTURE AT BYU.

“ hope we inspire our students to learn. And I hope the water. As I was sitting and looking out over the water, I that learning leads to inspiration. When both things I noticed some students who were at the water’s edge, happen, inspiring learning occurs, and we then know we building some kind of sand sculpture. The longer they are on the right track to achieve the core goals set forth were there, the more intrigued I became with what they in our mission statement.”1 In the summer of 2015, I was were doing. Eventually I wandered over to take a look. As sitting on the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee at the Ein I got closer to their sand sculpture, I began to recognize Gev Kibbutz. It was a hot, muggy day. I was there as part what they were doing. Their creation was not just any of my assignment to teach at the BYU Jerusalem Center sandcastle. They were creating the city of Jerusalem for Near Eastern Studies. We had finished with classes for during the time of Solomon: something they were learning the day, and many of the students were enjoying time in about in their ancient Near Eastern studies class. Their attention to detail impressed me. They had formed the ophel of David’s city with the Solomonic to the north. What I was most impressed about was that they had also included the fortification around the Gihon Spring and even the large stepped-stone structure, both of which we had visited on one of our field trips. As I stood there admiring their handiwork, I was struck by how they had showcased their classroom learning in a creative way and how the act of creating this structure reinforced that learning. Even though I was not their ancient Near Eastern studies teacher, I was so impressed with what they had done that I thought to myself, “These students deserve an A!” This experience reinforced in my mind how class- room learning can be both enhanced and deepened when students engage in creative projects. Speaking particularly of adult learners, Randee Lipson Lawrence has argued, “Artistic forms of expression extend the boundaries of Sand sculpture on the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee at the how we come to know, by honoring multiple intelligences Ein Gev Kibbutz. and indigenous knowledge. . . . Making space for creative

WINTER 2020 17 A stained glass window with symbols from the Nauvoo Temple, which is encased in surplus floorboards from the Nauvoo Temple, by Kate Stokes.

expression . . . helps learners uncover hidden knowledge These events were part of the genesis for Religious that cannot easily be expressed in words. It opens up Education’s Visualizing Learning exhibit that began in opportunities for adult learners to explore phenomena March 2019. It is located on the first floor of the Joseph holistically, naturally, and creatively, thus deepening Smith Building in the hallway between the auditorium understanding of self and the world.”2 and the First Vision atrium. The exhibit enables us to For the past three years, I have included a project showcase some of the amazing projects that students are in all of my religion classes. The students are invited to producing. At this point we are focusing on the visual choose a project that reflects one of their talents, or a artwork that they have created, but our hope is that we talent that they would like to further develop, that both will eventually be able to expand and include ways to strengthens their connection with heaven and is tied in showcase other creative projects as well. On 25 October some way to the things that we are discussing in class. A 2019 we opened our current exhibit, which includes number of Religious Education professors include similar eleven pieces of art: types of projects in their courses. We see these projects as one evidence of President Worthen’s vision of achiev- • A quilt depicting Book of Mormon scenes (Elizabeth ing BYU’s “core goals set forth in our mission statement” Butler; REL A 275) through “inspiring learning.” So it seemed only natural to • A stained glass window with symbols from the find a way to showcase some of these student projects that Nauvoo Temple, which is encased in surplus are being produced in religion classes. floorboards from the Nauvoo Temple (Kate Stokes; REL C 225)

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• A word-art depiction of Jesus appearing to Mary journey but awaiting revelation from the Lord about Magdalene that is composed entirely of scriptural how to proceed with acquiring light, air, and direc- verses from the New Testament: verses describing tions (Andrew Cuthbert; REL A 275) Gethsemane are used to create the olive tree, the sky is created with words from the Beatitudes, and the Next to each piece we have included a description of the path consists of John 14, which includes Jesus saying work and an artist’s statement. Each of these placards that he is “the way, the truth, and the light” (Micah contains a QR code that allows those who visit the exhibit Gygi; REL A 250) to vote for the artwork that is most impactful to them. • The First Vision depicted through three paintings We hope that students, faculty, and visitors to the Joseph where each one representing different moments Smith Building will take the time to enjoy the creative throughout the process of revelation: darkness, ways that students taking religion classes are engaging in despair, and light (Nathan Balaich; Rel. C 225) inspiring learning. • A computer-generated animation depicting Scottish ancestors, with “hair as flaming red as their testimo- nies,” traveling by ship to join the Saints in the United A number of Religious Education professors States (Ryann Bailey Wawro; Rel C 225) • An oil painting depicting Emma Hale Smith (R. R. include similar types of projects in their Christensen; REL C 225) that depicts the nobility courses. We see these projects as one and poise she exhibited during the tension after the evidence of President Worthen’s vision of Prophet’s death as she attempted to keep her family achieving BYU’s “core goals set forth in our together while Brigham Young worked to keep the Church together. Our exhibit includes a copy of the mission statement” through “inspiring original, which is currently on display in another learning.” exhibit back east. • An acrylic painting that draws on both the inspira- tion of Isaiah’s teachings on the gathering of Israel If you’d like to support current BYU students, Visualizing (1 Nephi 21:9; 22:25) and the concept of Christ as Learning, or other types of media initiatives in Religious our shepherd who calls each of us by name (Leah Education, we encourage you to make a onetime or Meredith; REL A 275) recurring donation at https://ldsp-pay.ldschurch.org/ • A depiction Jesus’s washing of the disciples’ feet in donations/byu?funds=30123127. John 13:1–17. The brown tones of the painting reflect not only the dirt of the Apostles’ feet but also the Notes willingness of Jesus, through his atoning sacrifice, I am grateful for the enthusiasm, expertise, and direction of Anthony to serve and cleanse the dirtiness of our souls (Ale Sweat, Mark Ellison, and Jason Combs who have made the Visualizing Learning exhibit possible. I am also grateful for the photographs that Ramos; REL A 250) Richard Crookston took of some of the students and their artwork. • A watercolor journal illustrating the thoughts and The pictures are used with his permission. impressions that came while studying the New 1. , “Inspiring Learning” (address at university confer- Testament (Megan Day; REL A 212) ence, Brigham Young University, 22 August 2016), https://speeches • A watercolor depiction of the River of Laman .byu.edu/talks/kevin-j-worthen/inspiring-learning/. 2. Randee Lipson Lawrence, “Knowledge Construction as Contested flowing out of the Valley of Lemuel (McKay Bryson; Terrain: Adult Learning Through Artistic Expression,” New Directions REL A 275) for Adult and Continuing Education, no. 107 (Fall 2005): 3, https: • A computer-generated picture of the Jaredite //onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ace.184. encampment, with the barges built and ready for their

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byu interfaith club

Andrew C. Reed

ANDREW C. REED ([email protected]) IS AN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF CHURCH HISTORY AND DOCTRINE AT BYU AND IS ONE OF THE FACULTY ADVISERS TO THE INTERFAITH CLUB.

n February 2018, forty-five students Guide for Musical Worship,” which commitment to religious traditions Igathered together to begin think- included Cantor Wendy Bat-Sarah while also creating a community of ing about the possibility of greater from Congregation Kol-Ami, Imam common values. The BYU Interfaith interfaith engagement across campus. Muhammad Mehtar from Khadeeja Club’s Mission statement follows: The meeting was the result of two Islamic Center, and myself, the concurrent movements: the desire for Interfaith Club was officially BYU Interfaith Club Mission the BYU Office of Religious Outreach recognized as a university academic Statement to bring students into the work of the club. That same evening, during “Religious diversity is a reality in Outreach Council and the desire two the Inaugural Interfaith Harmony today’s world. To promote appropri- highly motivated students had to fill Week Lecture hosted by Dr. Grant ate forms of religious engagement at a need among their fellow students. Underwood (Richard L. Evans Chair BYU, the BYU Interfaith Club seeks Maddie Blonquist and Savannah of Religious Understanding), the to build a community of religious Clawson worked through their final club was officially recognized for its pluralism. Religious diversity alone semester here at BYU to found and cosponsorship of the event. is not sufficient for, nor synonymous build up the Interfaith Club from From the outset, the club leaders with, true religious pluralism; its inception to its very first events have sought out additional training pluralism implies a more active, in that first semester. The Interfaith and opportunities to engage with two-way engagement across identity Club is geared toward student interfaith leaders from across the divisions. This kind of engagement learning and student engagement world. This drive to better under- is not intuitive. Therefore, the BYU with the core values of BYU, includ- stand how and why we seek out these Interfaith Club seeks to actively ing strengthening faith, increasing opportunities emerges from students’ create a safe, compassionate environ- academic learning, and providing individual recognition of the impor- ment for people of all faith traditions service. When Maddie Blonquist tance of this work and from the club’s and belief identities in order to learn and Savannah Clawson hosted an mission statement. At the core of our this engagement. interfaith panel that concluded efforts to strengthen interfaith work “The aims of the BYU Interfaith Blonquist’s student project, “Sacred on campus is the desire to foster a Club include creating a sense of Sounds: A Compassionate Listening form of pluralism that allows for real community among people of diverse

20 BYU RELIGIOUS EDUCATION REVIEW Lauren Cranor, Nick Hainsworth, Haley Kendall, Brady Stimpson, Thomas Britt, and Andy Reed. IFYC, ILI 2019, Chicago.

belief systems and identities, allowing for a shared space to learn and foster “By adhering to the principles of respect, empathy, and respect for others of differing beliefs, compassion, members of the BYU Interfaith Club will and providing resources to learn to engage across identity divisions. learn to value each other’s spiritual experiences, to respect “By adhering to the principles each other’s beliefs, and to build a community of people of respect, empathy, and compas- with diverse belief identities.” sion, members of the BYU Interfaith Club will learn to value each other’s spiritual experiences, to respect each other’s beliefs, and to build a commu- Hainsworth, Lauren Cranor, Haley on campus. While at ILI, students nity of people with diverse belief Kendall, and Thomas Britt) to attend participated in small-group learning identities.” the Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC) cohorts to develop their interfaith Interfaith Leadership Institute (ILI) skills and formulate programming Skill Building in Chicago in August 2019. After to initiate at BYU upon their return. To build a cadre of qualified students Eboo Patel’s visit to Brigham Young BYU students engaged with students with the developed interfaith skills University earlier this year, the club from Loyola Marymount University, and leadership qualities, BYU established a desire to participate Utah Valley University, and other Religious Education helped provide in this training program and learn students from across the United funding to four BYU students (Nick how to improve interfaith efforts States. Lauren Cranor, one of the

WINTER 2020 21 BYU Interfaith Club dialogue activity. Photo by Andrew C. Reed.

surround ourselves with people of our same faith, but it is a necessary skill to be able to socialize and work with people that are different from us. IFYC and the Interfaith Club are our best shot at becoming the people we need to become in order to help all of God’s children.”1 One of the results of ILI for BYU students is the continu- ation of training in connection with Utah Valley University’s Interfaith Council and Reflection Center Staff. Together with Ellie Thompson (Reflection Center Coordinator) BYU Student Dialogue with CrossPoint Church community. Photo by Andrew C. Reed. and Laura Guerrero (Philosophy, UVU), we invited students interested BYU students who attended the ILI, efficient ways to educate our commu- in working further on interfaith reflected on the experience in this nity on how to recognize, relate leadership skills and programming. way: “There is nothing to lose and to, and interact or learn to interact In November, students from both everything to gain from attending with people of different faiths. It is campuses began planning a joint IFYC and the Interfaith Club at BYU. increasingly more difficult to learn event for February 2020 as part of the These two safe spaces are the most these skills, as we often choose to IFYC Better Together Days 2020.

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To date, the Interfaith Club has hosted various events and activities to bring the campus clubs and community members together. Recent events (held in the fall 2019 semester) include an interfaith panel with students at BYU, a service activity with members of the BYU Newman Club and USGA where they knitted hats and scarfs for the Provo Refugee Center, and a personal interfaith storytelling training and dialogue with Pastor Logan Wolf and local members of CrossPoint Church where students and community members learned and then employed the club’s rules for good interfaith work. These rules for interfaith dialogue include

• Using “I” instead of “we” state- ments (e.g., I believe that . . .) • Seek first to understand and to be Student Interfaith Club leaders (Nick Hainsworth and Lauren Cranor) greeting audience members understood for Richard Mouw’s Richard L. Evans Memorial Lecture 2019. Photo by Andrew C. Reed. • Seek appreciative knowledge • Assume the best of intentions in others activities remind me how others care opportunity to learn from others just as deeply about their beliefs as I about their faith, their journey, These rules allow members of the do about my own.”2 their values and build relationships club to speak for themselves and their Through such interactions, through deepened understanding experience without assuming to speak students can build practical skills and commitment to learning more. At for their community at large. Brady that can be readily employed in the core, the club aims to strengthen Early, who organized the dialogue their future careers, in community spirituality across campus, provide with local members from CrossPoint leadership, and in religious service. significant academic enrichment, and Church, sees his participation in the As lifelong learners, these students build service as a central component interfaith club as personally impor- leave BYU with the ability to work of our ­engagement. tant for his own development. Early with those of other traditions while suggested, “Participating in the club appreciating the uniqueness of their Notes helps me to find greater meaning and own experience and community. 1. Email to Andy Reed, 27 November 2019. purpose in my own beliefs as I learn These activities and dialogues 2. Email to Andy Reed, 27 November 2019. more about the beliefs of others. The provide students a unique

WINTER 2020 23 study resources Free Resources to Enhance Your Study of Come, Follow Me R. Devan Jensen

R. DEVAN JENSEN ([email protected]) IS THE EXECUTIVE EDITOR AT THE BYU RELIGIOUS STUDIES CENTER.

resident Russell M. Nelson your home will decrease. Changes The RSC’s tradition of providing Pannounced a surprising innova- in your family will be dramatic and supplementary reading continues into tion in the October 2018 general sustaining.”2 our 2020 year of Book of Mormon conference to change the way Church Soon after conference, staff study. The following articles and members study the gospel. “For many members at the Religious Studies chapters are only a few of the many years, Church leaders have been Center compiled a list of free, help- free resources available to students working on an integrated curriculum ful resources to supplement Come, and teachers: to strengthen families and individuals Follow Me. That list resides at through a home-centered and Church- https://rsc.byu.edu/my-gospel-study • Shon D. Hopkin, “To the supported plan to learn doctrine, /come-follow-me. Those readings Convincing of the Jew and strengthen faith, and foster greater feature well-written articles from Gentile That Jesus Is the Christ,” personal worship,” he said about the the Religious Educator and insightful in The Coming Forth of the Book new Come, Follow Me curriculum.1 chapters from books such as the Sperry of Mormon, 281–99. President Nelson later added: Symposium volumes. The authors are • Steven C. Harper, “The Eleven “The new home-centered, Church- faithful gospel scholars who have spent Witnesses,” in The Coming Forth supported integrated curriculum has years studying the history, doctrine, of the Book of Mormon, 117–32. the potential to unleash the power and context of the scriptures. • Amy Easton-Flake and Rachel of families, as each family follows The RSC list features the Come, Cope, “A Multiplicity of through conscientiously and care- Follow Me lesson first, followed Witnesses: Women and the fully to transform their home into a by helpful links. If people want to Translation Process,” in The sanctuary of faith. I promise that as supplement reading the scriptures Coming Forth of the Book of you diligently work to remodel your and the Come, Follow Me topic, they Mormon, 133–53. home into a center of gospel learning, click on the link and pursue it in their • Richard E. Bennett, “Martin over time your Sabbath days will study time. This resource is particu- Harris’s 1828 Visit to Luther truly be a delight. Your children will larly beneficial for teachers looking Bradish, Charles Anthon, and be excited to learn and to live the for greater depth of understanding Samuel Mitchill,” in The Coming Savior’s teachings, and the influence the background and context of the Forth of the Book of Mormon, of the adversary in your life and in scriptures. 103–15.

24 BYU RELIGIOUS EDUCATION REVIEW • , “‘Behold, I Have Dreamed a Dream,’” in , The Doctrinal Foundation, ed. Monte S. Nyman and Charles D. Tate Jr. (1988), 113–24. • Seth J. King, “Illuminating a Darkened World,” in The Things Which My Father Saw: Approaches to Lehi’s Dream and Nephi’s Vision (Sperry Symposium), ed. Daniel L. Belnap, Gaye Strathearn, and Stanley A. Johnson (2011), 300–317. • Gerald N. Lund, “The Fall of Man and His Redemption,” in , The Doctrinal Structure, ed. Monte S. Nyman and Charles D. Tate Jr. (1989), 83–106. • Robert J. Matthews, “The Atonement of Jesus Christ: 2 Nephi 9,” in Second Nephi, The Doctrinal Structure, 177–99. Insights from General Authorities Tidings of Great Joy,’” in Living • Daniel Belnap, “‘Ye Shall Have and Religious Educators (2003), the Book of Mormon: Abiding by Joy with Me’: The Olive Tree, 295–315. Its Precepts, ed. Gaye Strathearn the Lord, and His Servants,” • Richard O. Cowan, “A New and Charles Swift (2007), 237–55. Religious Educator 7, no. 1 (2006): Meaning of ‘Restoration’: The 35–51. Book of Mormon on Life after Church members and fellow organiza- • Neal A. Maxwell, “The Children Death,” in The Book of Mormon: tions have responded positively to the of Christ,” in The Book of Alma, the Testimony of the RSC list of free articles and chapters. Mormon: Mosiah, Salvation Only Word, ed. Monte S. Nyman For example, in the past, Book of through Christ, ed. Monte S. and Charles D. Tate Jr. (1992), Mormon Central cross-linked to these Nyman and Charles D. Tate Jr. 195–210. resources, and BYU Studies shared the (1991), 1–21. • Anthony R. Sweat, “Active RSC list with their subscribers. We • H. Donl Peterson, “The Law of Learning and the Savior’s invite all to draw nearer to the Savior Justice and the Law of Mercy,” Nephite Ministry,” Religious by enjoying these free resources to in The Book of Mormon: Alma, Educator 10, no. 3 (2009): 75–86. supplement their gospel study. the Testimony of the Word, ed. • Jared W. Ludlow, “The Powers Monte S. Nyman and Charles D. of the Atonement: Insights from Notes Tate Jr. (1992), 211–22. the Book of Mormon,” Religious 1. Russell M. Nelson, “Opening Remarks,” Ensign, November 2018, 8. • Brent L. Top, “Faith unto Educator 9, no. 2 (2008): 21–29. 2. Russell M. Nelson, “Becoming Exemplary Repentance,” in A Book of • Michael L. King, “The Latter-day Saints,” Ensign, November 2018, Mormon Treasury: Gospel Atonement of Jesus Christ—‘Glad 113.

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APPOINTMENTS SELECTED FULL-TIME Blake Boatright, and Roger As of 1 December, Vance Theodore FACULTY PUBLICATIONS Keller. Provo, UT: Brigham and Blake Boatright (Church Alford, Kenneth L. “The Best Young University Press, 2019. history and doctrine) began Teaching Advice I Ever Andersen, Martin, and Fred E. full-time positions as associ- Received.” In The Best of the 2019 Woods, coproducers. The Saints ate graduate coordinators in Teaching Professor Conference, of Tonga: A Century of Island Religious Education. Vance and edited by Jon Crylen. Madison, Faith” (documentary film that Blake are both military chaplains WI: Magna Publications, 2019, first aired on BYUtv, 6 October and hold the rank of colonel. 5–7. 2019). Lincoln H. Blumell began serving ———. “Finding Documents on the Ball, Terry B. “Plants in the New as graduate coordinator in Joseph Smith Papers Website.” Testament.” In Blumell, New Religious Education at the start Religious Educator: Perspectives Testament History, Culture, and of winter semester. on the Restored Gospel 20, no. 2 Society, 61937. (2019): 123–31. Ball, Terry B., and Kerry AWARDS ———. “‘It Was Not My Intention Muhlestein. “Report on Scott C. Esplin received the John to Take Any Prisoners’: Botanical Macro Remains at the Whitmer Historical Association’s Contemporary Views of the 1863 Fag el-Gamous Necropolis.” In Best Book Award for Return Massacre at Bear River.” In The Muhlestein, Pierce, and Jensen, to the City of Joseph: Modern Proceedings of the South Carolina Excavations at the Seila Pyramid Mormonism’s Quest for the Soul Historical Association, 2019, and Fag el-Gamous Cemetery, of Nauvoo (Champaign, IL: ed. Ernest Jenkins and Brenda 306–12. University of Illinois Press, 2018). Thompson Schoolfield, 19–40. Baugh, Alexander L. “‘We Have a Shirley S. Ricks received the Charleston: The South Carolina Company of Danites in These Latter-day Saint Publishing and Historical Association, 2019. Times’: The Danites, Joseph Media Association Lifetime ———. “‘We Have Now the Territory Smith, and the 1838 Missouri Achievement Award in Editing. on Wheels’: Direct and Collateral Conflict.”Journal of Mormon On behalf of many contributors, Costs of the 1858 Move South.” History 45, no. 3 (July 2019): Richard E. Turley, Matthew J. Journal of Mormon History 45, 1–25. Grow, Scott A. Hales, and no. 2 (April 2019): 92–114. ———. “The Camp of Israel in Clay Steven C. Harper, the general ———. “They Were Called: Latter- County, Missouri.” In ’s editors of Saints, vol. 1: The day Saint Chaplains from the Camp, 1834: March of Faith, Standard of Truth, 1815–1846, Spanish-American War to WWI.” edited by Matthew C. Godfrey, received the Latter-day In Out of Obscurity and into the 67–101. Sandy, UT: History of the Saint Publishing and Media Light—Latter-day Saint Military Saints, 2018. Association’s Praiseworthy Chaplains: Development, History, Becerra, Daniel. “The Canonization Award in History/Biography. and Ministry, edited by Vance of the New Testament.” In Theodore, Kenneth L. Alford,

28 BYU RELIGIOUS EDUCATION REVIEW Blumell, New Testament History, Culture, and Society, 772–85. Belnap, Daniel. “‘And He Was Anti-Christ’: The Significance of the Eighteenth Year of the Reign of the Judges, Part 2.” Journal of Book of 28 (2019): 91–136. ———. “‘And Now My Son, I Have Somewhat More to Say’: Corianton’s Concerns, Alma’s Theology, and Nephite Tradition.” In Hull, Frederick, and Smith, Give Ear to My Words, 203–34. ———. “The Law of Moses: An Overview.” In Blumell, New Testament History, Culture, and Society, 19–34. Brigham Young University; Salt Blumell, Lincoln H., and Jan J. Bennett, Richard E. Temples Rising: Lake City: Deseret Book, 2019. Martin. “The King James A Heritage of Sacrifice. Salt Lake ———. “Scripture as Artifact.” In Translation of the New City: Deseret Book, 2019. Oxford Handbook of Early Testament.” In Blumell, New Berkey, Kimberly, and Joseph Christian Biblical Interpretation, Testament History, Culture, and Spencer. “‘Great Cause to edited by Paul Blowers and Society, 672–90. Mourn’: The Complexity Peter Martens. Oxford: Oxford Blumell, Lincoln H., and Kerry of The Book of Mormon’s University Press, 2019, 7–32. Hull. “Two Greek Epitaphs from Presentation of Gender and ———. “The Greek New Testament the Middle Eastern Cultural Race.” In Americanist Approaches Text of the King James Version.” Center in Tokyo, Japan,” Journal to The Book of Mormon, edited In Blumell, New Testament of Epigraphic Studies 2 (2019): by Elizabeth Fenton and Jared History, Culture, and Society, 77–84. Hickman, 298–320. New York: 691–706. ———. “Greek Inscriptions in the Oxford, 2019. Blumell, Lincoln H., Frank F. Judd Okayama Orient Museum.” Blumell, Lincoln H. Didymus the Jr., and George A. Pierce. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Blind’s Commentary on Psalms “Hebrews and the General Epigraphik 209 (2019): 152–58 (with 26:10–29:2 and 36:1–3 (Tura Epistles: Hebrews, James, 1–2 Kerry Hull). Papyri) (= P.BYU I; Brepols, 2019). Peter, 1–3 John, and Jude.” In Blumell, Lincoln H., Kerry Hull, and ———. “The Fag el-Gamous Papyrus Blumell, New Testament History, Kyoko Yamahana. “Two Greek Fragment.” In Muhlestein, Culture, and Society, 446–65. Papyri from the Early Roman Pierce, and Jensen, Excavations Blumell, Lincoln H., and Haley Period in the Tokai University at the Seila Pyramid and Fag Wilson-Lemmon. “Zealots.” Collection.” Bunmei Kenkyu 37 el-Gamous Cemetery, 313–17. In T&T Clark Encyclopedia of (2018): 183–92. ———, ed. New Testament History, Second Temple Judaism, vol. II, Callister, Tad R., and Scott C. Esplin. Culture, and Society: A edited by Loren T. Stuckenbruck “The New Home-Centered, Background to the Texts of and Daniel M. Gurtner, 817–18. Church-Supported Curriculum.” the New Testament. Provo, London: T&T Clark, 2019. Religious Educator 20, no. 1 UT: Religious Studies Center, (2019): 9–23.

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